What Say You Mr. Bush?

Someone please explain to me why we bombed into the Stone Age the most secular Arab country in the Middle East while kissing and holding hands with the most backward ruling elite in perhaps the entire world.

A court in Saudi Arabia increased the punishment for a gang-rape victim after her lawyer won an appeal of the sentence for the rapists, the lawyer told CNN.

The 19-year-old victim was sentenced last year to 90 lashes for meeting with an unrelated male, a former friend from whom she was retrieving photographs. The seven rapists, who abducted the pair and raped both, received sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in prison.

The victim’s attorney, Abdulrahman al-Lahim, contested the rapists’ sentence, contending there is a fatwa, or edict under Islamic law, that considers such crimes Hiraba (sinful violent crime) and the punishment should be death.

"After a year, the preliminary court changed the punishment and made it two to nine years for the defendants," al-Lahim said of the new decision handed down Wednesday. "However, we were shocked that they also changed the victim’s sentence to be six months in prison and 200 lashes."

The judges more than doubled the punishment for the victim because of "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media," according to a source quoted by Arab News, an English-language Middle Eastern daily newspaper.

Judge Saad al-Muhanna from the Qatif General Court also barred al-Lahim from defending his client and revoked his law license, al-Lahim said. The attorney has been ordered to attend a disciplinary hearing at the Ministry of Justice next month.

5 Responses to What Say You Mr. Bush?

I first read the story on the Arabnews.com and wrote back to them with a comment about justice being blind not stupid.

For years I have written to the president and in my local paper about the stupidity of some Islamic traditions, our dependence on oil, and the hypocrisy of the our promoting democracy in the Middle East while being friends with the Saudis and the other oil Sheiks , I wonder how many of those same idiots on the Saudi courts are married to fourteen year old virgins, THE BASTARDS

I first read the story on the Arabnews.com and wrote back to them with a comment about justice being blind not stupid.

For years I have written to the president and in my local paper about the stupidity of some Islamic traditions, our dependence on oil, and the hypocrisy of the our promoting democracy in the Middle East while being friends with the Saudis and the other oil Sheiks , I wonder how many of those same idiots on the Saudi courts are married to fourteen year old virgins, THE BASTARDS

It is very simple really! We need some combination of the following in the oil countries in the middle east:
–A brutal dictator who is helped by us and keeps our oil interests high on the list of his agenda
–A medieval religious society that keeps its population subjugated so our oil interests are kept clean

How else can we keep our oil interests protected? Surely not secular democracy in Gulf countries!

I quote “The seven rapists, who abducted the pair and raped both [the womurn and th’ man]…”

Now, it is true that it is a sin ta fornicate unless’n it is fer makin’ little babies that can grow up ta kill fer GW.

But it is also a sin ta lead folks inta temptation.

Now, this hyar womurn led them thar menfolk inta temptation….

She brought that thar man to th’ place, and he wuz probably good lookin like Elvis, and them rapists acted on thar manly natures and went inta a conniption fit. They acted out the homersexual impulses that reside in all us menfolks.

Homersexual sparkin is much worse than rape. She led them inta tempttion and tharfore she deserves the worser punishment. After all them folks what had th’ gay sex is goin ta burn forever in th’ lake of fire.

Plus, she weakened the morale of th’ American troops by makin th’ press report th’ incident. Cuz nothin weakens morale like hearin about the gays….I saw the You Tube Republican debate!